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>> we're going to win. we're going to win big. >> tonight's giant playoff game has just begun. fans have huge expectations. >> the giants are taking on the cardinals right now in a bid to get to the world series. here's a live look towards at&t park. we have hive team coverage tonight. beginning with sergio quintana at at&t with the fan frenzy. >> fan frenzy indeed. i talked to self hard core fans here today who got here several hours before the first ball was even pitched.
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>> for tailgaters, game six brought another opportunity to grill up some pregame steaks, and some giants fans are hoping to grill up an interesting item. >> ready to cook some cardinal bird. >> st. louis fans are here, hoping their cardinals shut down the giants. >> i'm hoping we clinch and i can be the one guy in my section standing up, cheering. >> even with the fierce rivalry, giants fans are welcoming to the handful of cardinal fans in town. we saw a local merchant trying to sell a custom made t-shirt a st. louis supporter. >> the dead bird? no. no. no. >> game six is good business for those selling giants fan ware as well as other nearby businesses, and primo priced parking spaces, and as the fans powder into at&t park, it's clear there's plenty of support for the home team,
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even though the giants have been sluggish at home. still, the san francisco faithful are hoping their team will repeat the magic of two years ago. >> we have come to 20 home games and the ratio of wins and losses were not in our farve, but this time it's going to be in our favor. >> of course, everyone is really excited. now, there are some people who are wondering if this is going to go through. it has just started so the excitement is just beginning. reporting live at at&t park, abc-7 news. >> let's look at the giants' incredible journey to get this far. after losing the first two national league division series games against the reds they won an historic three games on the road in cincinnati. now in the championship series, the giants put up a pair of home games against st. louis, then lost two on the road, pulled off a win in game five on friday night, rick quan is live at the
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ballpark with what both team managers are saying. >> this is a must-win situation for the giants, down 3-2. ryan vogelsong got the start against chris carpenter. vogelsong, struck out the side in the top of the first. the giants are now batting and they're threatening. resiliency is the best way to describe these teams. the giants are 4-0 in elimination games. the cardinals, rallied against washington, coming back from a 6-0 deficit to beat the nationals and advance the nlcs. >> says a lot about the character of the club, and that never say die attitude, and you know what's at stake and they're handling it well and both clubs have been in similar situation, and it's about going out there and playing like there's no tomorrow. and that's how they play. >> they aren't going to go away,
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and neither are way, and as soon as we won a couple games at home, there was nobody in there for a second under the belief that this is going to be a team that was going to just roll over. reporter: some good news. giants have just taken a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. if there is a game seven it will be matt cane versus kyle lohse. i'm wearing my orange tie, so see what happens. back to you. >> i happen to love orange ties. >> the giants are playing tonight under cloudy skies. the wet weather coming our way. the question is, will one meet the other? here's leigh glaser with the answer. >> leigh: i think it will be dry for the game tonight. if they win -- they will -- tomorrow night could be a different store, but looking at live doppler 7hd, clear sky over the bay area, high clouds moved in earlier and you'll notice a few high clouds out there right now. let me take you along the north
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coast as live doppler 7hd picking up nice returns. check this out. this is rain bands and is going to slide south and move over the bay area, just in time for our monday morning commute. here is a look at the storm system. here's the plume right here of moisture along the north coast. check out this enhancement to the south and west. this is going to swing in here in the next, i'd say, 12 to 20 hours, and that, my friends, is going to bring us the moderate rain during the monday morning commute. we'll pinpoint just when you can expect the heaviest amounts of precipitation, coming up later. >> developing news right now. a horror and tragedy in wisconsin where a gunman killed three people and wounded four nor a spa, then took his own life. the shooting occurred in the town of brookfield just outside milwaukee at the azana day spa. the body of 45-year-old radcliffe haughton was found mid
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look with the victims. >> some woman crawled out the front door and rolled down the hill, and the cops scooped her up and taken her to the ambulance, and they had taken off with her. then we heard a large shriek, and we saw them picking up another woman. >> police revealed radcliffe's wife worked at the spa, but not if she is one of the victims. >> in vallejo, an early morning domestic disturbance leads to a fire and a police shooting. this evening, one man is dead and many questions remain. reporter: this is the aftermath of a bizarre rampage two men, known only as jason and jeremiah, went on in the early morning hours. >> dispatch got calls saying there was a disturbance at the residence here and two men were
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fighting and breaking out windows in front of the house, and trying to set the house on fire. >> when police responded to the home, hey ebb count erred jason uncooperative and niewsmed that's when jeremiah, 29, appeared, also naked, with a loaded rifle. he put the barrel of the rifle to an officer's stomach. >> another officer saw this, and fired, discharged his weapon at the mam. >> jeremiah was pronounced dead at the hospital. jason is now in custody. after that altercation, the fire engulfed the home. vallejo fire department responded and quickly put it out. while investigators don't know what led to the vie happen rampage, one neighbor thinks it was love rrs quarrel gone too far. he said they were a couple and had heard them fight but never expected this. >> disconcerting.
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but what are going to do. >> court any thomas owns the home, nothing their love of collecting mercedes cars, gardening, and refurbishing antiques. >> they were here for a little over two years, took care of the house, had no complaints. took care of the yard. paid the written on time. normal people. >> take a look how a chp chase ended in san francisco. a chrysler 300 stolen in concord, abandoned. the chase began on the bay bridge and the driver attempted too elude officers. he was caught in a nearby coffee shop with the keys to the car in his pocket. >> president obama and his republican opponent, mitt romney, spent the day preparing for their third and final debate in florida. the president hunkered down with his aides at camp david.
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>> figure out which of the players is best and take them out early. >> thunderstorm0s faceoff in boca raton, florida, one of the last major opportunities for the candidates to capture the attention of millions of voters, especially those in the group who have not made up their mines. >> looking forward to the next disease bait. i'd like to hear what they have to say, especially how they see the position of america in the middle east changing. >> tomorrow's debate will focus exclusively on foreign policy, and the third and final presidential debate; the debate starts at 6:00 p.m. and you can watch it lite here on abc-7. >> midnight tomorrow is the deadline to register if you wont to vote in november. several county registrars will be holding last-minute
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registration events, and you can also register through the online voter registration system. we have a link to the system on our web site, abc7.com. click on "see it on tv". >> a decorated war veteran is being remembered as man of peace. up next. a look back at the life of former senator george mcgovern. >> a change in construction plans for the sap mateo bridge that is sure to be a big relief
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>> president obama is calling george mcgovern a hero of war who became a champion of peace. the former south dakota senator died this morning. he was a decorated world war ii
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bomber pilot by saying he hated war by waging it. he ran against nixon and lost in a landslide. he spent his later years writing books and worked on ending world hunger. >> a fire at an historic church in berkeley is not preventing members from gathering for services. they're attending services as building the church owns. the fire broke out inside the church just after 10:00 last night and flames spread quickly through the building that dates back to 1878. investigators are trying to figure out what started the fire. a double dose of good news for drivers trying to get across the bay. the repairs to the san mateo bridge will be finished by 5 topping morning, just in time for the monday morning commute. two, caltrans won't need to close the bridge again next week as it planned. they're replacing a seismic joint on the we were end of the
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span. drivers can still expect regular lane closures as crews complete the project but there will be no more slow-moving traffic on the bay bridge due to frustrated drivers being diverted there because of a second closure. caltrans says it's getting everything done this weekend. you can download our wey -- waze traffic app. >> a fire ball that streaked across the sky last week left its mark in in the bay area. this is a big deal for scientists. a closer look coming up. >> talking about things falling from the sky, let's talk rain. leigh glaser is. when she comes back with her report.ñsñ?ñwñs
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>> terry: the search is on for remnants of a meteor shower wednesday night. scientist are investigating what appears to be the first confirmed meteor rite recovered
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from the fire ball. they believe it hit the roof of a home in novato. this is believed to be the meteorite and the dent it left in the home's roof. >> it was a funny piece of rock. i'm not a rock person, but this is weird enough to say, let me run it past somebody else. >> terry: scientist want to name it the novato meteorite. the projected fall area of the meteor stretches east of san rafael, over novato, and up towards napa. >> what else might the skies produce? let's check in with leigh glaser and find out. >> leigh: going to get our first substantial rainfall of the season. the fall early winter season but today we had mainly clear skies. a few high clouds drifting by. live doppler 7hd picking up on those very faintly. you can see for yourself. we're looking live, and you can see north bay is clear but we're
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still seeing a few straggling clouds towards stockton, tracy, fremont, san jose. i'm going to take you to the north coast, live doppler 7hd picking up some returns. look at the oranges and yellow, moderate rain there. this is all in association with a cold front, a pretty strong one, that's going to move in here just in time for tomorrow morning's commute. i know. it's going to be crazy. and that is definitely going to slow everything down tomorrow morning. highs, like the current temperatures, in the 60s. 59 in livermore, and 60 with some sunshine for san jose. the rain will arrival overnight. be prepared for rain and wind for that monday morning commute, and then more showers due in as we head into tuesday night and wednesday. this is the actual cold front, strong for this time of year. a lot of cold air instability behind it but it's this back edge right here, this is going
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to move in here overnight tonight, and definitely wreak havoc on the early monday morning commute. so keep that in mind. mike nico will be here from 4:30 to 7:00, so tune in for that for an update. here's tonight, monday morning 1:00 a.m., the first rain ban moving in. this is 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, moderate rain until 8:00 a.m., then starts to push into the south bay and east bay. a little break tomorrow afternoon. there's two, five, if we have another giants came tomorrow, and then by tomorrow night at 10:00, another with a moves in across the bay area and it will linger into the 5:00 a.m. tuesday commute time frame and then dry out tuesday afternoon. rainfall potential, inch, inch and a half. in the higher elevations. the rest of us, maybe a quarter inch, lesser amounts towards the peninsula, the south bay and the
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santa cruz mountains possibly as much as half an inch. if you're headed to the sierra, winter storm warning has been upgraded. a foot of snow expected and wicked winds, gusting to 40 plus miles-per-hour near lake level, three to as much as six inches of snowfall so keep that in mine. it will impact travel. if you're headed up there, carry chains. tonight, increasing clouds and tomorrow is a cool day, off and on rain, heavy at times, especially tomorrow morning. in the 60s inlean. 50s elsewhere. the winds will pick up as well. we guess as the front moves through, anywhere from 25 to as much as 30 miles-per-hour. we get a break on tuesday afternoon and then another chance for scattered showers on wednesday. next weekend, dry, temperatures in the 70s. >> thanks very much, shu. >> mike: the raiders faced off
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in the black hole, if you can call it that. both two teams are struggling, and one of them had to win.
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>> the raiders are a work in progress. unfortunately it's tough to improve at this level especially during the regular season. jacksonville in town. both need a little history. we're adding a little pink. it's breast cancer awareness month. trust me on this. do we have any highlights or
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not? anytime you're ready. >> re-enactment. >> okay. so we don't have any. all right. well, i will just say the raiders went on to win in overtime, 26-23, improve to 2-4, the jaguars fall to 1-5. can we go around the nfl? all right. vikings and cardinals, big game for adrian peterson. takes it in from 13 out. 7-0 vikings. third quarter, vikings d applying the pressure. john skelton spikd off, going -- picked off, going the distance. vikings win 21-14. they improve to 5-2. cardinals fall to 4-3. andrew luck and the colts hosting the browns, luck did the real damage scoring two touchdowns with his feet. colts win 17-1. -- 17-13.
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>> drew brees stays on his feet, then flips 0 defender and dives into the end zone. are you kidding me? brees with four touchdowns on the day. >> saints up seven, five seconds left. here's mike william. back of the end zone, but williams stepped out-of-bounds and came back in before he caught the ball. that's illegal. saints win 35-28. >> giants and the cardinals, game underway right now. matt holliday is out with back problems. 4-0 giants bottom of the inning. >> move on to nascar, kansas speedway. five races remaining in the chase for the cup. matt kenseth, took the checkered
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flag. brad keselowski leads the standings by seven points over jimmie johnson. >> the tour taking to the streets of san francisco. it was worth seeing reynolds and harrison duke it out. look at this incredible move. been a great weekend for extreme sports enthusiasts with the tour in town. that's big fun. remember most of these kids from 12 years ago when the x games were here, and we'll hear and see what happened at the raiders game at 6:00. giants up 4-0. >> getting back to the raiders. got to feel like the forgotten franchise as the niners and giants. they won but -- >> mike: new coach, new general manager, a new era since al davis passed away.
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so it's tough to create a new entire franchise, doing it during the regular season. so a work in progress. they'll great better but for now just keep up. and promise we'll have highlights -- actually, shouldn't promise. >> i'm going to take a crack at a sportsñsñ?ñwñs
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>> drop agony like tim tebow might now cost you. he has officially trademarked that move. tebowing, a move in which he goes down on one knee and holds a clenched fist against his forehead. shu does it during sport sportscast. tebow doesn't plan to make a profit but doesn't want people to use the move the wrong way. that's it for this

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